Whoa. That’s Johnson’s famous Rusty Hinge photo. The dude is an artistic savant.

We’ve seen his amazing photography before and this was one of the best of his banal and uninteresting collection. I rotated it to see if it might be more interesting, and when I did, I noticed that it’s missing some things – like fasteners, a hasp, and it’s not located on the wooden gate hinge point. That piece of hardware does nothing, and it hasn’t for years according to the rust stains because it’s been laying flat on someone’s porch deck for a while.

On the other hand, if you squint, it looks just like Charles Johnson’s brain.

My lib sister Bunkarella came by today, and I brought up the #TwitterGulag saga. She’s on social media, but not on Twitter, and she was surprised when I told her about Twitter’s bias. She’d never heard about it.

I can’t help thinking that only an obsessed idiot would tweet such a thing, particularly after rampaging against Islamofascism for 8 solid years, and then switching sides abruptly after being stiff-armed by Pam, who ran off to Europe with Robert. It was strictly business, but not in your peevish little mind. 😆

Our dog is 14 & 1/2 . It’s been difficult watching him go from a strong, powerful dog to one that has trouble walking (back legs) and has intermittent bowel control. 😦 Our youngest son, especially, (now 22) will be utterly devastated when he dies because he’s been in our lives for over 13 years.

Sounds like it’s almost time to do him one last favor. In my experience, those are the key signs that a dog is almost done with his fine work. Heartbreaking as it is, you don’t want your good friend to suffer needlessly. Neither do you want to jump the gun, if he’s still getting some enjoyment out of his life. You’ll know when it’s time.

We’re going to Thailand again in 2 weeks. We’ll have a sitter for him at the house who is a trained doggy gal. We’ll make sure he’ll have the best care and she’ll know what to do in case of an emergency.

You’ve got it covered. Dogs’ lives are shorter than ours, so we have to adapt. The only good thing about that is that we get to bring a new member into the family. Every dog I’ve had since I was a kid has had his/her own gifts, as well as flaws that make you love them more. George would be too perfect if he didn’t have his morbid fear of water (lakes and bathtubs, no thank you), and his whippet’s tendency to run fast and far in pursuit of whatever the hell is in front of him. On the other hand, he insists on cuddling with the nearest human if the temps drop below 70 degrees or so. He sheds a lot, thanks to his 25% collie heritage. Hand-vacs and giant lint rollers. I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Does anyone tweet more paranoid insanity than Chunky? I haven’t seen his like, but admittedly, I’m not the greatest expert on Twitter. Judging from what I see here, it’s difficult to imagine a more insane routine.

Funny how the word “hinge” is playing such a direct role in this thread and in Chunky’s daily tweetsturm. It’s almost like he had a premonition when he snapped his momentous photo of dat rusty hunk of metal.

@CharlesPPierce Maybe she means it was a critical factor in electing Donald Trump. I’d agree with that.
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RT @CharlesPPierce: Jill Stein just said she went to Moscow to convince the Russians not to get bogged down in the Middle East. This is too…
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I finished reading “Shattered”. They didn’t talk about the Hillary melt-down as you noted, but what was really interesting to me at the end was what appeared to be the writers’ dilemma as to what really cost Hillary the election – her illegal behaviors or the exposure of said behaviors.

Out in our neck of the Ohio woods, firecrackers are already going off in the neighborhood to celebrate 4th of July weekend. This will be the first 4th with Trump & my neighbors are itching to celebrate. Our county is unapologetically Republican . I’ma gonna disappear for a while to make a ham casserole for dinner. 🙂

We’re going Up North on Friday, with a load of fireworks to set the woods on fire, scare some squirrels. Just hanging around this weekend — going to grill some steaks in a couple of hours, and celebrate daughter’s fiance’s 30th birthday. Some hard cider and Powers Whiskey are on tap. And ice cream cake!

Well, now we have learned where the Fatass and his god-king Olbie get their stuff. The “imminent indictment” fantasies, and whatnot.

How The Left Lost Its Mind

Meanwhile, old-school platforms like Reddit and Daily Kos continue to host freewheeling forums that attract the kind of occasionally enlightening, occasionally deranged conversations that tend to thrive in those environments. And the HuffPost contributor platform—an un-vetted, unedited section of the site that operates apart from its professional journalism—has been a vehicle for some of the most bizarre, and outright craziest, content to go viral on the left in recent years.

Just this month, editors were forced to delete a contributor post that began, “Impeachment and removal from office are only the first steps; for America to be redeemed, Donald Trump must be prosecuted for treason and — if convicted in a court of law — executed.” And throughout last year’s primaries, Seth Abramson, a creative writing professor at the University of New Hampshire, used his HuffPost perch to churn out a procession of increasingly delusional blog posts explaining why Bernie Sanders would inevitably win the Democratic nomination.

Abramson’s arguments not only denied political realities and delegate math as the race wore on; they often denied basic human logic. But thanks to the hordes of Bernie fans desperately scouring the internet for some hope to cling to, Abramson’s posts consistently went uber-viral. (He eventually wrote a post defending this shameless play for clicks as a form of “experimental journalism” that embraced “the multi-dimensionality of metanarrative.” The Washington Post’s Matt O’Brien responded via Twitter: “Area Academic Writes Barely Comprehensible Defense of Lying.”) These days, Abramson’s main platform is Twitter, where he has over 150,000 followers, and specializes in imminent-indictment stories in the style of criminal complaints.

I’m re-posting this 2015 article because people need to realize that Trump has been getting his memes from Nazis for a LONG time.
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FLASHBACK: We Found Where Donald Trump’s “Black Crimes” Graphic Came From: the white supremacist fever swamp… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
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Poor Chunkles. Still trying to get the Nazi smear to stick after 2 years. No one followed his lead because that false graphic is only slightly worse than the actual FBI and DOJ stats. Which is why libturds with a brain don’t trot out the stats to support their racism accusations. For whatever reason blacks commit more crimes and murders way disproportionate to their percentage in the population.

Everyone else is merely saddened. The old chap has clearly jumped the shark. Of course, he knows a proton from a crouton but last time I checked no one rings up the local genius cosmic physicist for planetary climate theories. Earth is the next Venus if we don’t sign onto the latest Paris scam which the French themselves will ignore? Einstein predicted gravity’s effect on light. Something very difficult to prove, and when rare conditions presented themselves was proved. Climate hucksters predict all sorts of things that never happen. And take credit for things that do happen naturally. Why would he sign onto that muddle? Hawking is either an old diminished fool who once was great, or worse simply choosing sides in the cultural war of lies in order to sell a few more books.